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Scliwertz (the founder of the school) that he knew how to infuse such an enthusi- 

 asm into all his pupils. Where such a spirit reigns, great things are easily de- 

 veloped from small." 



An enthusiastic love for the work is, indeed, an essential requisite in those who 

 are to put into successful operation our industrial colleges ; and where this is 

 wanting, the power of infusing it into the pupils will also be wanting. To ex- 

 pect success where indifference and apathy prevail is folly ; zeal and energy, 

 united to enlarged views, must be sought for by those whose duty it will be to 

 give a starting direction to these colleges, in the selection of their presidents and 

 professors. 



5. The place of location. The industrial schools in Europe have not been 

 located in the vicinity of its largest cities. The purpose of this is obvious ; for, 

 besides the increased expenses to the pupil, the incentives to waste of time are 

 greater, and the temptations to immorality increased a hundred-fold. The 

 nearness of a city, through its show of great wealth, is calculated to lead the 

 mind of the student to speculative pursuits, and to create a distaste to those in- 

 dustrial occupations whose gains are slow and toilsome. 



But in the more retired localities, care should be taken to have in view such 

 market facilities as will insure favorable prices for the products raised or manu- 

 factured, and those travelling accommodations which will enable the students to 

 make the excursions referred to. 



6. Instruction in the sciences involves a far greater expense in the establish- 

 ment of an institution than that in languages and mathematics. It requires the 

 museum, by which clear ideas may be communicated through the eye. And 

 this greatly increased expense is one of the prominent causes why the sciences 

 have not been taught in the great majority of American colleges, for on account 

 of their great number the endowment of each has been too limited to have 

 either a museum, or library, or apparatus. Keeping in view this fact, it is 

 obvious that the several States should not only carefully husband the resources 

 derived from the grant of Congress, but should add to it by every proper 

 means. The following suggestions may, therefore, be not inappropriate : 



1. Where a State has a well-established university, as that of Harvard or 

 Amherst in Massachusetts, or Yale in Connecticut, or that of the University of 

 Michigan, its industrial college may most advantageously be made such a part 

 of it, as would give the students all advantages of instruction in both, but leave 

 to the Industrial College its own endowment and control. On the question of 

 such connexion, we think the following remarks of Mr. Flint are just. He says : 



" I do not know that it would serve any good purpose to enter at length into 

 a development of the controversy now going on in Germany upon this question, 

 owing to the fact, already intimated, that the state of society is so different, the 

 lines of caste there so nicely drawn, and the objects proposed in an agricultural 

 education so distinct from our own. But it may be remarked that Liebig has 

 taken the ground very strenuously in favor of a connexion with the universities, 

 and that a majority of the agriculturists adopt that view, or take a middle 

 ground, that the location should be in the immediate vicinity of some established 

 university, partly as a means of bringing the students under university laws, 

 and partly as a means of giving the professors a higher position in the estima- 

 tion of their pupils, and of availing themselves of the advantages of the collec- 

 tions, libraries, &c., which a university can offer, as well as of the talent of 

 university professors." 



2. Where a State has no such university, but controls one or more of lesser 

 magnitude, it should so direct its endowment and other means as to make them 

 an integral part of the industrial college. The great expense of properly 

 establishing it has been fully considered in a general way, and referred to more 

 in detail by Professor Owen. It will demand all the educational means of this 

 kind that can be directed to its support to make it what it should be. So far 



